A Special Mention went to Marcin Wrona's Demon[+see also: trailerfilm profile], which world-premiered at Toronto. The director was found dead on 18 September, one day after the film's Polish premiere at the Gdynia Film Festival.

"The fact that with The High Sun and Ungiven there are two Croatian productions among the prize winners honours the fantastic work of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, which has systematically bolstered the film industry for the last couple of years," said Bernd Buder, the festival's programme director.

The DIALOGUE Prize for Intercultural Communication, and another €3,000, went to Kazakh director Daniyar Salmat's film Sagintay's First Wife. The Karlovy Vary FEDEORA Award winner, Heavenly Nomadic by Kyrgyzstan’s Mirlan Abdykalykov, received the "From Cottbus to Cinema" distribution support prize to the tune of €10,000. The €4,000 Cottbus Discovery Award went to Nicolae Constantin Tănase's The World Is Mine[+see also: film reviewtrailerfilm profile].

In the shorts competition, the Main Prize, worth €2,500, was handed to Russian director Aksinya Gog for Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century, Poland's Miłosz Sakowski received the Special Prize, worth €1,000, for Grandma's Day, and Georgian filmmaker Tato Kotetishvili got a Special Mention for Ogasavara.

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